Editors and environments

While LaTeX can be written in a simple text editor, many people wish to edit LaTeX source in a specialized environment. The following editors, which use various toolkits, are all available in the official repositories and can be installed with pacman.

TeXMaker — A free, modern and cross-platform LaTeX editor for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows systems that integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX, in just one application. Also check out TeXWorksAUR.

JabRef — Java GUI frontend for managing BibTeX and other bibliographies. If you have issues with certain features not working in JabRef (like the "Find" command), it may be an incompatibility with Java 7. Try installing Java 6 (i.e. openjdk6). This will uninstall jdk7-openjdk and jre7-openjdk, and all features in JabRef should now work.